March 15th, 2019
Kaiser still in denial over patient suicides
by Sal Rosselli NUHW President Seong and David Brown have lived every parents’ nightmare. One summer, their brilliant, beautiful teenage daughter, Elizabeth, returned home from college and confided that she was having panic attacks and cutting herself. Their nightmare only got worse when they tried to get Elizabeth mental health therapy from their HMO, Kaiser […]
March 15th, 2019
Video: Elizabeth’s story: The human cost of Kaiser’s mental health failures
After struggling for more than a year to get mental healthcare from Kaiser Permanente, Elizabeth Morgan Brown took her life at the age of 19.
March 12th, 2019
Kaiser suicide victim’s parents profiled in CALmatters
After struggling for more than a year to get mental health care from Kaiser Permanente, Elizabeth Brown took her life at the age of 19. Jocelyn Wiener spoke with Elizabeth’s parents for her March 10 article in CALmatters: For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CALmatters
March 1st, 2019
Caregivers organize Town Hall on state of health care in Humboldt County
Over the past year, Providence St Joseph Health’s Redwood Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital Eureka have reported a combined $58 million annual profit, while laying off more than two-dozen caregivers. With Providence controlling a near health care monopoly in Humboldt County, our members, along with the California Nurses Association, held a Feb. 25 Town […]
March 1st, 2019
Providence Tarzana workers fight back against subcontracting
Less than a year after settling a new contract, Providence Tarzana workers are pressuring management to stop violating a provision that prohibits subcontracting out work to outside contractors. First, they filed a formal grievance demanding that management stop subcontracting out Biomed Department work to the firm enBio. Then, a delegation of workers met with the […]